Touching up the touch ups
Having decided upon which protector to use for the electric chair (see last post) I inserted it into the playfield from the backside and was horrified to see the metal frame poking out from behind my front bevel. I had cut the bevel too deep! As I didn’t want to live with this (it was ugly), I decided to fill in the bevel with wood putty and rework it to the right level, so that it fitted with my new protector. I also discovered online that the original playfields also had bevels on the sides (which explains the shape of the artwork to the left of the hole. So I thought I would take this opportunity to bevel the hole as originally intended:
Electric Chair hole showing original bevel
I also thought I’d take the opportunity to rework some of my earlier touch ups (note the use of masking tape to prevent damaging the playfield at the sanding phase):
Chair hole touch up
Chair hole from behind - (note the height of the protector in the hole)
Rebuild of Swamp entrance from shooter lane
Some wood splintered on the right inlane switch hole which needed rebuilding